1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are compact text files stored on your device by your web browser when visiting websites. They allow web applications to remember your visual preferences, maintain secure sessions, and compile aggregate usage metrics.
2. Categories of Cookies We Deploy
- Essential & Functional Cookies: Required for the core technical operation of our site. For example, maintaining your Dark Mode vs. Light Mode preference via local storage tokens.
- Analytical & Telemetry Cookies: We utilize privacy-compliant analytics (such as Google Analytics 4) to evaluate page speed, popular platform comparisons, and user interaction flows. These cookies collect aggregated, anonymized metrics without tracking your personal identity.
- Advertising & Third-Party Cookies (Google AdSense): Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) to serve advertisements based on your prior visits to PlatformProbe or other websites on the Internet. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visits to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Partner Referral Beacons: When clicking an external link to evaluate a course platform, a tracking cookie may be set by the destination merchant network to attribute the referral to PlatformProbe.
3. How to Manage Cookie Preferences & Opt-Out
Most modern web browsers allow you to manage or block third-party cookies via your browser privacy settings.
To opt out of personalized Google advertising, visit Google Ads Settings. To opt out of third-party advertising cookies generally, visit www.aboutads.info.
Disabling cookies will not restrict your ability to browse our comparison matrices or run revenue calculations.